Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (RD)
Mangalore, Oct 26: The Mulky police arrested a man who was accused of skillfully looting the unwary passenger of inter-city-bus here on Wednesday October 26.
The arrested has been identified as Walter D’Souza (31). He was alleged of robbing a co-passenger traveling with him in an inter-city bus plying from Mumbai to city in the month of August.
The accused had drugged the co-passenger, Vishwanat Bhandary of Kumble by offering the latter with biscuits. Meanwhile, when Vishwanat Bhandary was high on drug, the accused had decamped with jewellery worth Rs 2 lac from the baggage of Vishwanat when the bus stopped for a brief halt at Mulky, near here on August 3.
The sleuths led by ACP Muttumadayya who arrested Walter D’Souza at Mulky, recovered jewellery that he had sold to a jewellery shop at Jogeshwari, Mumbai.
The accused was presented before the court that remanded him judicial custody. A case has been registered at Kadri police station in this regard.